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Wiktionary
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n. 1 (context now chiefly US English) A male follower or retainer; a male domestic worker or servant. (from 17th c.) 2 (context chiefly UK English) A medical graduate gaining practical experience in a hospital; a house officer. (from 1920s)
WordNet
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n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience (`houseman' is a British term) [syn: intern , interne , medical intern ]
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A qualified doctor working as a senior houseman in a hospital pathology department she discovered she was pregnant in November 1988. ▪ I agreed, so long as the houseman would assure me that he was out of immediate danger. ▪ I ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Houseman may refer to: Houseman (surname) House officer , a junior doctor in a British hospital Useful man , a grade of domestic worker below footman
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
houseman \houseman\ n. an advanced student or graduate in medicine gaining supervised practical experience in a hospital or other medical institution. [British] Syn: intern, interne, internist, medical intern.
Usage examples of houseman.
She went away to telephone the houseman, told Staff to get the cutters and shears ready and everything needed to replaster the limb, and glanced at the clock.
Beck, the second orthopaedic surgeon, he was on the best of terms with him, and the housemen and nursing staff considered him to be the very acme of perfection.
The long hallway he entered thronged with people in various uniforms--housekeepers and bellmen, waitresses and housemen, bartenders and banquet waiters.
He was guarding First Avenue with sixteen or seventeen of his housemen, a number of them in disguise.
Their housemen, waiting-women, and under-servants had increased tenfold, and there were more than a dozen horses in the stable.
Kagashirayama manor, it is my housemen who caused the monks to come here.
In the midst of the milling servants and housemen he stood planted, arms flung out wide, glaring at the men who surrounded him.
Those people who just arrived are housemen and servants from Rokuhara.
It was a relief to get back to the Accident Room, and because there was a sudden rush on, find herself helping one of the housemen with some uncomplicated arm plasters.
He was standing outside the Surgical Ward entrance as she was passing, talking to two housemen, but he paused when he saw her, and with a word to them deliberately stopped her.
She bent to her task, vaguely knowing that Zuster Bunsma was busy close by and that there were several housemen there now.
The three men arranged themselves without haste around the unconscious patient, covered on the flanks, as it were, by two housemen, looking apprehensive.
He had Gordon Blair with him, the usual two housemen, and towering over them all, Adam.
Those had been regular housemen, sworn to Jadek but not necessarily loyal to him.
Back in her flat, lying in bed with the cats curled up at her feet, she decided it was because he was so much older than the young men who had been at the party, mostly newly qualified housemen or final-year students.